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On Jul 28, 2012, at 10:58 PM, Andy Blunden wrote:
My new book is now pubished. Unfortunately too expensive for an
individual reader, but maybe your library could buy it. Cheap
paperback edition in 12 months' time:
http://www.brill.nl/concepts
Andy Blunden presents a critical review of theories of Concepts in
cognitive psychology, analytical philosophy, linguistics, conceptual
change theory and other disciplines. The problems in these
disciplines has led many to abandon the idea of Concepts altogether,
particularly those taking an interactionist approach. Blunden
responds with an historical review focussing on the idealist
philosophy of Hegel, its reception and transformation in the
development of positive science and finally the cultural psychology
of Lev Vygotsky. He then proposes an approach to Concepts which draws
on Activity Theory. Concepts are equally subjective and objective,
units of consciousness and of the cultural formation of which one is
a part. This continues the author’s earlier work in /An
Interdisciplinary Theory of Activity/ (Brill 2010).
*Table of contents*
Part I. Contemporary Theory
1. The Psychology of Concepts
2. Narratives and Metaphors
3. Conceptual Change and Linguistics
4. Robert Brandom on Concepts
5. Where we are Now with Concepts
Part II. Hegel
6. The Story of the Concept
7. Hegel’s Logic
8. The Genesis of the Concept
9. The Realisation of the Concept
10. Hegel’s Psychology
Part III. From Philosophy to the Human Sciences
11. The Critical Appropriation of Hegel
12. Sources of Cultural Psychology
Part IV. Vygotsky
13. Concepts in Childhood
14. Vygotsky on ‘True Concepts’
15. Concepts and Activity
Part V. Conclusion.
Acknowledgements:
I would like to thank Mike Cole for the advice and encouragement
over a number of years, as well as all the correspondents on the
listserv, xmca. In particular, I thank Mike Arnold, Lois Holzman,
David Kirschner, Jay Lemke, Carol Macdonald, Anna Sfard and Tony
Whitson for invaluable discussions, and Lynn Beaton, Arturo
Escandon, Helen Grimmett, Ron Lubensky, Rob Parsons, Deborah
Rockstroh, Julian Williams and Roger Woock, who each read parts of
the manuscript and gave me invaluable feedback. And I would like to
thank my editor David Fasenfest for his support.
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